Re: "write him" was Re: More questions
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 29, 2003, 4:02 |
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--- Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
wrote:
> Tiëhţëk Kouctiouın Kumuruc
>
> Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> > --- Stephen Mulraney
> <ataltanie@...>
> > scrievit:
> >
> >
> >>I've always wondered why folk in the US
> choose
> >>to use the plural form of "folk" :)
> >
> >
> > Cos there's more than one here?
>
> Bah! :)
>
> As far as I can tell, _folk_ *is* plural, and
> so is _folks_ :)
I tend to think of folk as a collective; and
folks as the plural of the collective - i.e.,
several collectives together.
Padraic.
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